Exam 14: Neurocognitive Disorders and Disorders Related to Aging

The form of dementia associated with Parkinson's disease typically involves delusions and a loss of working memory.

In Huntington's disease, there is progressive deterioration of the cerebellum.

Folksinger Woodie Guthrie suffered from ______.

Viral encephalitis is ____________.

Alzheimer's is _______not a ______.

Parkinson's disease involves destruction of dopamine-producing nerve cells in the substantia nigra.

Marcus exhibits panic, fever, seizures, meaningless mumbling, and vivid hallucinations. His behavior is best described as ______.

Apprehension, fear and panic are features of delirium which fall into which of the following domains?

Women have been found to be at higher risk than men for Alzheimer's disease. As your authors point it this may be because ______.

Among people over the age of 85, the prevalence rate of delirium rises to about ____percent.

Korsakoff's syndrome is most closely associated with ______.

In moderately severe Alzheimer's disease, people require little assistance in managing everyday tasks.

The majority of Parkinson's patients treated with L-dopa show ______.

Disorders involving deficits in cognitive functioning that represent a marked change from the individual's prior level of functioning and which are caused by physical or medical Conditions that affect brain functions are called ______.

Dementia that begins at age 65 or earlier is termed senile dementia.

Which statement is true of vascular neurocognitive disorder?

Strattera can help control the symptoms of Parkinson's disease and slow its progress.

Delirium most often affects which of the following?

Lewy bodies are abnormal protein deposits that form within the nucleus of cells in parts of the brain, disrupting brain processes that control memory and motor control.

In cases of neurosyphilis, the bacterium directly attacks the brain, resulting in dementia.